History Characters / FinalFantasyBraveExviusSwornEight

The leader of the Sworn Six, a valiant man who believes in his friends and deems them as TrueCompanions. After being betrayed by Aldore and having himself and his team banished to Lapis, he starts hatching a plan to get back to Paladia and enact revenge, [[spoiler:that is, until Raegen decides that it's just not worth it and deserts the team, leaving it headless, to Citra's extreme chagrin]]. [[spoiler:Citra eventually manages to create a Vision of him from the times of the Independence War, and tries a forceful recruitment of the real Raegen herself, which ends badly when Raegen, now a married man with children, watches his wife [[TakingTheBullet take a shot meant for him and die in his arms]], causing Raegen to drop even his son to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge embark on a journey to stop his former companions]].]]

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The second of the Sworn Six of Paladia. He is first encountered in Dirnado after the heroes have found a missing dwarf. [[spoiler: His identity is of the first Cid.]] The heroes then attempt to stop him from destroying the Wind crystal[[spoiler:, but end up too late and breaks the seal on the Heart of Babel, unleashing the airship, Invincible.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Whenever the subject of his child [[spoiler: and after Yego joins, children]] comes up, Cid becomes an effusive, blubbering fool. Moreover, he doesn't care who sees it - being a dad is his whole life, and he'll gladly act as goofy as possible if it means he shows his love and affection. [[spoiler: Both Mid and Yego are rather fond of this, and they awkwardly let him know.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: When he first arrived in Lapis, after fighting off some monsters, the dwarves thanked him by fixing his pocket watch. This deed, and the intellectual curiosity of the dwarves is what convinced him to [[spoiler:teach them how to make airships.]]

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:A major [[TheReveal reveal]] at the end of the Wind Shrine is that he's actually the original Cid, which sends Lid for a loop.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: After the confrontation with Rain and his party, he reveals his in Pharm. [[spoiler: He was made immortal, but his wife and daughter were not. Aldore's actions in sealing off the world meant that he would never be able to see his family again, and that his child would live and die without really knowing her father. While he tried to build a new life in Dirnado with the dwarves, the despair eventually became too much.]]
* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:How his identity is revealed after fighting him at the Wind Shrine.]]

* GadgeteerGenius: As to be expected from someone who is invested in airship use in a ''Final Fantasy'' game, he's exceptionally good at putting devices together. [[spoiler: As one would expect from [[LegacyCharacter a Cid in this series]].]]
* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:His identity is that of the very first Cid.]]

* OverprotectiveDad: Hinted at several times during Season 2, but confirmed in the epilogue: [[spoiler: Cid is defensive about both Mid and Yego and wants to make sure that neither will be hurt... and that includes by jerk boyfriends. Keep in mind that both managed to become elite forces all on their own.]]
* PapaWolf: He's fiercely defensive of anyone he has taken in by family, including the other Veritas, and he's one of the oldest among them. [[spoiler: When he finds that his daughter is still alive in season 2, he does everything he can to protect her, even before she makes a HeelFaceTurn. When Yego makes a proper HeelFaceTurn as well, Cid is just as quick to treat her the same.]]

* SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler: Cid is nothing if not effusive of his daughters, both by blood and by adoption. He spends his spare time in his travels even making little mementos for them to show how much he cares, even as he admits that he's out of touch with what young women might want from their father.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: He discusses the downsides to being made immortal to Lid and the others when confronted in Pharm. [[spoiler: He reveals that his immortality is something given to him by Paladia... while his wife and child were just normal humans. He painfully reveals his certainty that they are long since dead.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Veritas tolerate Lazarov up until the point that [[spoiler:his actions nearly cause the destruction of the Invincible by Bahamut]], at which point Heavens steps in and makes sure that Lazarov isn't going to escape after Rain manages to finally confront Lazarov.

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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkioOhtsuka

'''Voiced By''': Creator/ShowHayami [[spoiler: (Cg Limit Burst)]]

'''Voiced By''': Creator/KanaHanazawa [[spoiler: (CG Limit burst)]]

'''Voiced By''': Creator/KentaMiyake [[spoiler: (CG Limit burst)]]

'''Voiced By''': Creator/YuichiNakamura [[spoiler: (CG Limit Burst)]]

'''Voiced By''': Creator/YoshinoNanj [[spoiler: (CG limit burst)]]

** The Sworn themselves have a big reason for their actions in Season 1, as they indeed intended to pay Aldore back for their betrayal. [[spoiler:This is especially true of Raegen, as Vlad [[YouKilledMyFather killed his father to take the Aldoran throne when Raegen was a newborn.]]

* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:As Gilgamesh, he's putting Rain and his friends through a combat tournament to make sure that they're strong enough to defend the last crystal from the Sworn Six.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: He gets discussed in Fina's memories well before he makes an appearance. On top of this, the second half of Gronoa even has Veritas of the Dark and Veritas of the Flame discuss Frostlord, even mentioning that [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat there was no way that he could have survived his wounds to the present day]]. [[spoiler: In a twist, they're right - someone else is using the armor.]]
* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Is the '''REAL''' Sir Raegen that abandoned his son.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:He is shown to have allied with the unseen Sage of Lightning in the War of the Visions timeline to fight an unknown foe.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: He freezes the entire Duggle Village to force Rain and his companions [[LetsYouAndHimFight to fight each other to see who will match swords against him]]. He also sets up a spell to destroy the final crystal to put a time limit on the bout with Rain when the two finally meet. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Both are ruses]] - nothing happens to the crystal at all, and returning to Duggle reveals that everyone in the town is just fine and have no idea what Rain is talking about.]]
* TheLeader: [[spoiler: His clone is in charge of the other EvilKnockoff Veritas.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:When encountered, he's Sir Raegen.]]
* MultiMeleeMaster: Unlike most of the Veritas, who generally specialize in one weapon, he carries around a veritable armory (including a flail, a spear, a longsword in a sheath, and a scimitar or scythe) when he battles. His playable unit furthermore can be built to do either physical or magical damage and can [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration equip any type of weapon.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:No one has even seen his armor since the war had finished.]]
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: When Darklord and Flamelord discuss Frostlord in the second half of Gronoa, they specifically discuss how it'd be impossible for him to have survived what happened to him. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that they're ''right''. Nobody anticipated that anyone else would try to use his old armor, though. However, Word Of God states he will be a part of the spinoff game ''War of the Visions'', suggesting he really did survive for a time.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:At the end of the first half of Gronoa, we see his armor standing, which glows red where his eyes would be.]]
* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler: The present-day user of the Frostlord armor is putting Rain and his friends through a combat tournament to make sure that they're strong enough to defend the last crystal from the Sworn Six.]]
* SoLastSeason: Immediately upon appearing in War of the Visions, he ditches his old armor and goes for a new set.
* WalkingSpoiler: About the only thing that isn't a spoiler is that there is a Veritas associated with ice, given that there's a Veritas for each other element. [[spoiler: In particular, the reveal that the present-day user of the Frostlord armor is Sir Raegen is a huge spoiler that upends what everyone previously knew about the plot.]]

The fifth of the Sworn Six of Paladia. He joins Light with the task of the destroying the [[spoiler: light]] crystal in Mysidia.

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* TomatoSurprise: Turns out to be a major one, revealed in the WhamEpisode at the end of Gronoa. [[spoiler: The Veritas of the Dark encountered throughout Season 1's present is a Vision that Veritas of the Light brought forth based on how Raegen was at the start of the Veritas' exile to Lapis. Among other things, this is why he doesn't recognize Rain or Lasswell at first; the Vision is a version of Raegen from well before either was born.]]
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: Well, if Fina isn't going to heal Lasswell's mortal wound at the Fire Temple, he's not about to let the guy who just mastered Purple Lightning die.]]

* YinYangBomb: [[spoiler: Combines fire and ice outside of his armour.]]

!Veritas of the Heavens / Heavenlord / [[spoiler: Cid]]

! Veritas of the Waters / Waterlord / [[spoiler: Folka]]

!Veritas of the Flame / Flamelord / [[spoiler: Ignacio]]

!Veritas of the Earth / Earthlord / [[spoiler: Sieghard]]

!Veritas of the Light / Lightlord / [[spoiler: Citra]]

!Veritas of the Frost / Frostlord / [[spoiler:Gilgamesh]]

!Veritas of the Bolt / Boltlord / [[spoiler: Sakura]]

The first of the Sworn Six of Paladia that the heroes encountered. He sets the plot in motion by destroying the Earth crystal in Grandshelt.\\
It is eventually revealed that there are [[spoiler:two Raegens; one decided to abandon his thoughts of revenge in favor of freeing his brother Rowen from the Ice Crystal he was sealed inside, and during his quest]] fell in love with a woman from Lapis, eventually marrying her and having Rain. [[spoiler: The other was a Vision of Raegen from 700 years ago accidentally summoned by the Lightlord. Upon hearing her grief he decided to lead the other Veritas on their quest for revenge, desiring to defeat the real Raegen in the process and become the true Darklord.]]

The main antagonists of Season 1. They seek to destroy the world's crystals for an unknown reason. Come season 2, [[spoiler: their unarmored versions are PromotedToPlayable.]]

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler: He abandoned Rain after [[DealWithTheDevil Rain touched Dark Fina's crystal.]]]]
* DarkIsEvil: He's [[ObviouslyEvil not even remotely subtle]] - the only thing keeping him from ticking off every box in the TinTyrant checklist is not actually being a ruler.

* DarthVaderClone: He's clad in imposing black armor, functions as TheHeavy for the entire villain team, uses Dark magic, and even his battle sprite has a glowing sword. [[spoiler: Oh, and [[LukeIAmYourFather he's the protagonist's father]]. Or not. Or is he?]]
* DiscardAndDraw: Most of the powers usable by his season 1 form, Veritas of the Dark, and his season 2 form, [[spoiler: Raegen]], are mutually exclusive. There are reasonable explanations for most of these, though - the season 2 form lacks the AmplifierArtifact that season 1's form has, while the season 2 form [[spoiler: is based on a version of Raegen that's 700 years older, and thus presumably learned new abilities]].
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Appears to be the BigBad of the story until Pharm, when he is revealed to be a vision summoned by Veritas of the Light.]]
* EvilVirtues: Veritas of the Dark is a surprisingly big fan of ThePowerOfFriendship - he tries to help out the other members of the Sworn Six whenever possible, and he even makes a point of healing them when necessary.
* FinalBoss: Of the Pharm storyline. He's the last story boss on that continent.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: As noted under VillainousRescue, he uses healing powers [[spoiler: to save Lasswell's life in the Fire Temple]], despite not having access to any such powers as a vision. [[spoiler: Averted when Raegen as he is in the present becomes a recruitable vision; he does have Raise and Curaga.]]
* HeroicNeutral: [[spoiler: The original Raegen just wanted to live his live with his family in peace when the Veritas of the Light showed up and demanded he join her side, killing Sophia in the process. From then on he opposes his former friends and seeks to stop them.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: The Darklord [[spoiler: saves Lightlord from Behemoth K, taking a fatal wound and shattering in the process.]]
* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler: Raegen]] can use ice magic.
* KingIncognito: [[spoiler: He reveals in season 2 that he is the rightful heir to the throne of Paladia, with his father being assassinated by the current Emperor when he was an infant. It doesn't seem to concern him much outside of wanting revenge on the Emperor.]]

* LostOrphanedRoyalty: Was saved from [[spoiler: the royal family of Aldore being murdered by Yuraisha, who named him and raised him as her own son.]] When he learned the truth, he joined Aldore's side in the war.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: A cutscene right after Olderion is cleared reveals that Dark is Sir Raegen, who is Rain's dad.]] Its actually subverted though, [[spoiler: as the current Veritas of the Dark is a vision of Raegen created by Veritas of the Light.]]
* NobleDemon: He shows shades of this in the Fire Temple: [[spoiler: He makes the effort to heal Lasswell after Lasswell has shown mastery of Purple Lightning.]] [[spoiler: Worth noting that the one who heals Lasswell is a Vision from before Lasswell was born, so he only knows him as an enemy of the Sworn Six.]]
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler: Raegen]] can use fire magic.

* TheRedMage: [[spoiler: As Raegen,]] he can use healing as well as offensive magic.
* ThatManIsDead: His response to the mysterious woman who approaches him and addresses him [[spoiler:by the name "Raegen".]] His responses beyond that suggest that he actually believes that life belonged to someone else. [[spoiler: It's revealed in Gronoa that the real Raegen isn't currently using the Veritas of the Dark armor, so the life of Raegen really does belong to someone else.]]
* TemporalParadox: His Side Stories chapter, added as of the third anniversary, has him (and Rain) cause one, of the "Object Loop" variety. [[spoiler: Rain from the end of season 1 is sent to an alternative dimension along with Raegen from 5 years before the story's start. When Raegen tells Rain where he was when he left, Rain mentions that's where they encountered each other when Raegen wore the Veritas of the Frost armor, which let Raegen know that the armor was in that area so that he could wear it when encountering Rain later.]]

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: [[spoiler:The people of Aldore adored them over their leaders, which is the reason Aldore goes to such lengths to get rid of them.]]
* AmplifierArtifact: [[spoiler:Their armor is what makes them so powerful. Absent it, they're still powerful, but they could never hope to match the armor on their own.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:As of the start of Season 2, the entire group - sans the original Darklord and Boltlord, who weren't killed to begin with, and the original Frostlord, who died 700 years ago - are revived some undefined time after the end of Season 1. As of the second Season 2 update, it's strongly suggested that Dark Fina brought them back, though none of them are quite sure as to why.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Downplayed. The [[AmplifierArtifact armour]] the Veritas wear not only increases their power but draws them to fight and amplifies their bloodlust to the point that some of them become almost completely different people while donning the armour.
* DeadlyUpgrade: [[spoiler:They use Lazarov's life-enhancing machine to increase the power of their armor, giving themselves a major boost, but the strain it puts on their lifeforce is too much for them to handle. While Rain and friends don't see it happen until their match against Veritas of the Flame, their victories in Pharm end up costing the Veritas too much and results in their deaths. Veritas of the Light survives, while Veritas of the Dark gets offed by Behemoth instead.]]
* DramaticUnmask: Early in Season 2, [[spoiler: the AmplifierArtifact armors of all the Veritas get their power enhancing abilities permanently destroyed. Since they just weigh down the Veritas at that point, they all remove the armor and permanently stop using their Veritas titles.]]
* ElementalAbsorption: Unsurprisingly, each can absorb attacks of their signature element. [[spoiler: Fortunately for the player, this is equally true of their playable versions. However, it's an element of their [[AmplifierArtifact armors]], as Sakura, Raegen, Citra, Sieghard, and Folka prove, so only their Veritas forms can do this.]]

* EvilKnockoff: Each of them faces a [[spoiler: brainwashed clone of themselves at the end of Season 2.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:They were working with Aldore during the war, but they are antagonists in Season 1, and want revenge on Aldore for their exile. Sakura is no longer one of them because she disagrees with this stance.]]
* FeedItWithFire: One common link that the Veritas have is that they heal from attacks of their element. [[spoiler: It's a function of their armor, although most of the Veritas do have an inherent resistance to their chosen element outside of their armor, as most Season 2 forms attest - only Citra inherently lacks it, and even then she has a skill to buff it.]]
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that the Veritas generally have a bit of flexibility in what they can use (all of them are capable of strong magic use, and several of them have a range of weapons that can be equipped), but the two Veritas best suited towards magical/ranged builds are the two women on the team, Veritas of the Waters and Veritas of the Light. Meanwhile, outside of one very specific build for Veritas of the Flame, all of the men are most capably geared towards melee combat. This also held true of the two missing members from when they were the Sworn Eight - Veritas of the Frost was practically a WalkingArmory of melee weapons, while Veritas of the Bolt [[spoiler: that is, Sakura back when she regularly wore her armor]] carried a bow.
* ItsPersonal: Pretty much all of the party members have, or end up with, an axe to grind with these guys in some way. [[spoiler:Rain and Lasswell want to settle things with Raegen (though in ''this'' case, it can't quite work out that way), Lid is incensed the first Cid would engage in such behavior, Nichol despises Waters for killing Elle, and Sakura strongly disagrees with revenge after 600 years going by, with it being reciprocated and ''extra'' personal when it comes to Light's hatred of Sakura.]]
* TheMissingFaction: It quickly becomes obvious that the Sworn Six are themed around the elemental affinities present in the game. However, there are eight affinities, but they're openly the Sworn Six; what happened to the other two? Eventually explained: [[spoiler:In Dark Fina's memories, it's revealed that Veritas of the Bolt was Sakura's old title before she abdicated it, while Veritas of the Frost was killed in battle 700 years ago, and is thus TheGhost, with his armor currently in use by Raegen, former Veritas of the Dark.]]
* PhlebotinumOverdose: They all power up their armour further near the end of season 1, but this has the effect of [[spoiler: making almost all of them overload and die after battle.]]

* PromotedToPlayable: The six primary Veritas were eventually released as Visions [[spoiler: and are all major protagonists in Season 2.]]
* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:They have been around ever since the war between Aldore and Hess. Bonus points for it actually being 700 years old.]]

* TrueCompanions: Season 2 underlines this, not only by showing the six interacting, but by giving each of them a (small) CastHerd that is related to them by blood or adoption. ([[spoiler:Raegan has his sons; Citra is Sakura's older sister; Folka is Nichol's distant ancestor; Cid and Siegfried ''each'' adopt a couple of Stars, one of which is Cid's biological daughter; and even Ignacio, the odd one out, still has a relationship to the Exostars.]])

!Veritas of the Dark / Darklord / [[spoiler: Raegen]]
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It is eventually revealed that there are [[spoiler: two Raegens; one decided to abandon his thoughts of revenge in favour of freeing his brother Rowen from the Ice Crystal he was sealed inside, and during his quest]] fell in love with a woman from Lapis, eventually marrying her and having Rain. [[spoiler: The other was a Vision of Raegen from 700 years ago accidentally summoned by the Lightlord. Upon hearing her grief he decided to lead the other Veritas on their quest for revenge, desiring to defeat the real Raegen in the process and become the true Darklord.]]

* CloningBlues: As revealed in "Chasing Light", [[spoiler: the version of Darklord summoned by Lightlord is earnestly looking forward with the chance to cross swords with the real Raegen, feeling that the latter abandoned who he was, and the vision wishes to defeat the real Raegen to become the "true" Darklord.]]

* DarkIsEvil: He's [[ObviouslyEvil not even remotely subtle]] - the only think keeping him from ticking off every box in the TinTyrant checklist is not actually being a ruler.

See [[Characters/FinalFantasyBraveExviusMainCharacters Main Characters.]]

* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Falls for Nichol along with some of the other Veritas in Season 2.]]

!Veritas of the Frost / Frostlord / Gilgamesh

* AnIcePerson: His primary element.

* MultiMeleeMaster: Unlike most of the Veritas, who generally specialize in one weapon, he carries around a veritable armory (including a flail, a spear, a longsword in a sheath, and a scimitar or scythe) when he battles.

!Veritas of the Frost / Frostlord
A member of the original Sworn Eight of Paladia that fought in the war between Aldore and Hess. [[spoiler:He has been long since dead after the war. His armor was taken over by Sir Raegen to counter the current Sworn Six.]]

* TheGhost: [[spoiler:Has been long dead since the war happened.]]

The first of the Sworn Six of Paladia that the heroes encountered. He sets the plot in motion by destroying the Earth crystal in Grandshelt.

* The Atoner: It takes a ''long'' while, but near the end of season 2, she admits that one of the things she wants to do [[spoiler: after she dies is to find the spirit of Sophia and apologize for all that happened. Citra even admits that she doesn't expect to be forgiven, but she wants to apologize nonetheless.]]

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: When Darklord and Flamelord discuss Frostlord in the second half of Gronoa, they specifically discuss how it'd be impossible for him to have survived what happened to him. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that they're ''right''. Nobody anticipated that anyone else would try to use his old armor, though.]]

!Veritas of the Flame / Flamelord / [[spoiler: Ignicio]]

* TheBigGuy: He's rather distinctly the largest of the Veritas, and he's also the strongest in terms of raw power. [[spoiler: It becomes even more apparent when they ditch the armor in Season 2 - while most of the unarmored Veritas are smaller and less assuming out of it, Ignicio is the same size, towering over his companions.]]

* TheHeart: Season 2 reveals that he, of all people, functions as one for the Veritas. Whether it be by defusing arguments, being there to back up everyone when all else seems lost, and most notably, [[spoiler: being the one most incensed by Mombert's HarmfulToMinors plan]]. He's not above resorting to WarriorTherapist moments [[spoiler: as Nagi learns late in season 2]], but he ultimately views his NoblesseOblige as trying to make as many people as possible happy.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Late in Season 2, he talks about how much he misses his blood siblings, and there's a strong undercurrent that he views the other Veritas as replacements for them. [[spoiler: He explicitly offers to Nagi that they be this for each other's late siblings, and

The third of the Sworn Six of Paladia. She first appears on the bridge of the Invincible, hinting of her plans to Evan, Dark, and Heavens. She's a very proud strategist, sure that her plans will succeed. She was the [[spoiler:first Maiden of Water and is the ancestor of Nichol, Luka and Elle.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Take a close look at her victory sprite at the end of the battle when using her as a Vision. [[spoiler: She breaks down, likely due to realising all the suffering she has caused due to being BrainwashedAndCrazy, ''especially'' the realization that she killed her own great-etc-grandson.]]